Thirty-six students in grades one through six from Comegys Elementary School were at ZBT’s chapter house for an hour of Halloween-themed activities.

On Nov. 19, just before the Quakers kick off their final home game of the season against Cornell, a statue of the man they call “Concrete Charlie” will be unveiled.

A midweek, nonconference road game is hardly an ideal scenario for any team, much less a team competing to defend its Ivy League title. But for Penn women’s soccer, that is no excuse for sub-par effort.

Despite an early 1-0 lead, the Penn field hockey team fell to nonconference powerhouse Rider, 7-1, Wednesday in Lawrenceville, N.J.

Penn Hillel, along with other student organizations, raised nearly $2,000 for the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. The funds were raised through an event hosting comedian and television personality Evan Wecksell.

Right on the heels of Occupy Philadelphia protesters rallying at Huntsman Hall, a conference on critical theory is coming to Penn.

Starting Friday, students were no longer charged the $5 hourly fee to play recreational tennis at Penn Park’s outdoor Hamlin Tennis Courts. Following complaints from students, the Undergraduate Assembly worked with Penn Athletics and the Office of the President to remove the charges.

Wednesday, Assistant Sociology professor David Gibson spoke about tapes of John Kennedy in the first of three installments of the Lightbulb Café held at the Penn Museum. The series allows the community to ask questions of experts in an informal setting.

A Penn laboratory has successfully programmed the PR2 robot to scoop poop. “We wanted to do something difficult but utterly pedestrian, something that people could relate to,” third year Computer Science doctoral student Anthony Cowley said.

Flood waters that have been rising in Bangkok, Thailand, since July have displaced family members of Penn students. The Thai student association PennThai has been fundraising to aid those affected.

Consul General of the Republic of Korea in New York Young-mok Kim paid a visit to Penn yesterday for an event hosted by the newly endowed James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies.

The all-female comedy troupe Bloomers joked that the CEOs of Google, Apple and Facebook will be present at their fall show, opening Thursday night. The show, titled “Goopleface: OCR We There Yet?”, will take a look at corporate America. GALLERY: Photos from behind the scenes of Bloomers’ show

StartUp Academy, launched this month through Bain Capital Ventures, matches students with a startup company. Although students often find startups a “risky” place to work, Bain matches students with companies they believe are “growing,” such as SurveyMonkey and Rent the Runway.

While he was a student at Penn, Larry Maltz spent his free time in the library. But unlike other students, he wasn’t poring over statistics or chemistry — he was reading. For fun. INTERACTIVE: Recent graduates’ career plans

Nearly 350 celebrated the renaming of the Medicine School after a $225 million donation made by 1940 Wharton graduate Raymond Perelman and his late wife, Ruth, where Raymond was also presented with a Medal for Distinguished Achievement from Penn.

Former Goldman Sachs director and ex-board member for Wharton’s Lauder Institute Rajat Gupta pleaded not guilty Wednesday to leaking insider information to 1983 Wharton MBA recipient Raj Rajaratnam.

There are a plethora of alternate career paths available to students with the initiative and desire to explore beyond what is immediately available.